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℞ Ammonii carbonatis.......Э j

Morphiae sulphatis.......gr. 1/6

Misturae amygdalae .....℥ iv

M. S. Two tablespoonfuls every three hours.

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At night give a tablespoonful of spirit of mindererus in a tumbler of cold water, after the patient has got into bed and been covered up with several blankets; cold water to be drank freely during the night should the patient be thirsty.

In the morning the extra blankets should be removed, so as to allow the skin to cool down before getting up.

Let him get up as usual, and take his usual diet; but continue the ammonia mixture every five hours.

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At bed time, the second night, give a compound colocynth pill.

An addition to this plan is needed in persons whose cold seizes at once upon the bronchial mucous membrane. Besides the manner of proceeding just described they should use the following inhalation:

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℞ Extracti conii......... gr. x

Tincturae benzoini........3 j

Spiritus ammoniae aromatici...............3 ss

Aquae (170°F.).......................................Oj

Inhale the steam for fifteen minutes at bed time each night, put a mustard plaster on the front of the chest one night, and between the shoulders the next, and unless the weather is warm, wear respirator out doors until all signs of the cold have disappeared.

- Dr. Horace Dobell.